Funny Quote by Alan Watts

You can ask the question, "What's making the boat go forward?" It can't be the wake. The wake can't drive the boat. It's just…

— Wayne Dyer

I finally said, I can't live being carried by this wake.

— Marla Maples

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

— Philip Larkin

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

— James Elroy Flecker

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

— Louis L'Amour

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

The boat that sails backwards never sees the light

— Author Name

“And so when               the sailors               hear the shore’s yawn And see the               lighthouse wick               upon the sea They’ll know              …

— Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia

For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation…

— Tom Clancy

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

— Ronald Reagan

“...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed…

— Iain M. Banks

“The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich